Election 2024: Four Takeaways From Biden’s Post-Debate Interview
In his first television interview since the debate, President Biden tried to reassure supporters, but he spent much of the interview resisting questions about his capabilities.
President Joe Biden
Biden is the 46th president of the United States and was sworn in on January 20, 2021.
Biden is the 46th president of the United States and was sworn in on January 20, 2021.
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CreditTom Brenner for The New York Times At a Key Juncture, Biden Again Gambles on ABC’s George Stephanopoulos
A high-stakes moment for the president could also be the most consequential interview of the star anchor’s career.
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CreditRuth Fremson/The New York Times Biden Campaign, Sticking to Its Playbook, Will Spend $50 Million on Ads This Month
The new ads are part of a push by Mr. Biden’s campaign for stability at a time when some members of his party have called for the president to drop out.
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CreditDoug Mills/The New York Times These Voters Supported Biden in 2020. Now They Want a Plan B.
Dozens of voters in four swing states expressed fear, frustration and anger. And they want a new option — whatever (and whoever) that is.
By Jack Healy, Mitch Smith, Eduardo Medina and
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Major Democratic Donors Devise Plans to Pressure Biden to Step Aside
The president appears intent on remaining on the ballot, while wealthy donors are discussing plans to put their money elsewhere.
By Kenneth P. Vogel, Theodore Schleifer and
CreditDoug Mills/The New York Times Biden Tells Allies He Knows He Has Only Days to Salvage Candidacy
The president’s conversations are the first indication that he is seriously considering whether he can recover after a devastating debate performance. The White House said he had not spoken about leaving the race.
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CreditDoug Mills/The New York Times Biden Tells Governors He Needs More Sleep and Less Work at Night
The president’s opening remark to a group of key Democratic leaders — that he was in the race to stay — chilled any talk of his withdrawal, participants said.
By Reid J. Epstein and
CreditDoug Mills/The New York Times Trump Stays Quiet (Relatively), Hoping Biden Stays in the Race
The former president has spent months painting President Biden as incapable of leading, but he has let Democrats do the doubting when it comes to whether Mr. Biden should leave the race.
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CreditKenny Holston/The New York Times Should Biden Step Aside or Stay In? What Prominent Democrats Are Saying
A small but vocal faction of party members are urging the president to withdraw from the race or consider doing so in time for a replacement to be chosen.
By June Kim, Blacki Migliozzi, K.K. Rebecca Lai, Neil Vigdor and
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Coronavirus
Student Loan Borrowers Owe $1.6 Trillion. Nearly Half Aren’t Paying.
Millions of people are overdue on their federal loans or still have them paused — and court rulings keep upending collection efforts.
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CreditWilliam DeShazer for The New York Times This Is the First Presidential Debate Without an In-Person Audience Since 1960
John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon were the last presidential candidates to debate with no live audience during a general election.
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CreditAssociated Press Biden’s Stimulus Juiced the Economy, but Its Political Effects Are Muddled
Some voters blame the American Rescue Plan for fueling price increases. But the growth it unleashed may be helping the president stay more popular than counterparts in Europe.
By Jim Tankersley and
CreditDoug Mills/The New York Times The One Thing Voters Remember About Trump
We asked voters for the one thing they remembered most about the Trump era. Few of them cited major events like the pandemic and Jan. 6.
By Christine Zhang, Sean Catangui and
Credit ‘Don’t Inject Bleach’: Biden Mocks Trump on Anniversary of Covid Comments
President Biden has homed in on the infamous moment, which crystallized the chaos of the Trump presidency, as he trolls his political opponent.
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Kamala Harris
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Vice President Kamala Harris has spent the past year trying to quiet her doubters. Now, with President Biden’s candidacy on the line, Democrats are assessing whether she is up to being the nominee.
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CreditDoug Mills/The New York Times In Her Crisp Defense of Biden, Harris Builds a Case for Herself
Vice President Kamala Harris tried to calm Democratic fears as her allies wondered what could be next for her.
By Erica L. Green, Zolan Kanno-Youngs and
CreditDoug Mills/The New York Times Kamala Harris Courts Union Members, an Up-for-Grabs Group of Voters
Speaking in Philadelphia to supportive members of a major labor union, the vice president sought to draw a sharp contrast with Donald Trump and build support with a bloc of crucial voters.
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CreditMorry Gash/Associated Press Harris Warns of Supreme Court’s Future Rulings: ‘I Worry About Fundamental Freedoms’
In an interview with The Times, Vice President Kamala Harris deepened her criticism of the conservative justices who overturned Roe and singled out Clarence Thomas’s views on other settled cases.
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Cabinet Appointments
Biden Nears Pick for Next F.D.I.C. Chair
The front-runner for the bank regulatory job is Christy Goldsmith Romero, a member of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
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CreditValerie Plesch/Bloomberg Biden Will Choose a New Leader for Bank Regulator With ‘Toxic’ Culture
Martin Gruenberg, the chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, said he would step down once the Senate confirmed a successor.
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CreditKevin Dietsch/Getty Images How Biden Adopted Trump’s Trade War With China
The president has proposed new barriers to electric vehicles, steel and other goods.
By Sabrina Tavernise, Nina Feldman, Carlos Prieto, Sydney Harper, Luke Vander Ploeg, M.J. Davis Lin, Brendan Klinkenberg, Lisa Chow, Diane Wong, Marion Lozano, Dan Powell and
CreditAgence France-Presse — Getty Images Leader of Federal Student Aid Office Steps Down After College Admissions Crisis
During Richard Cordray’s tenure at the agency, the botched rollout of the new FAFSA upended the college admissions process.
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CreditAllison Farrand for The New York Times Opposition to Muslim Judicial Nominee Leaves Biden With a Tough Choice
Adeel Mangi would be the first Muslim American to be a federal appeals court judge, but has faced vitriolic attacks from the G.O.P. The president could run out of time to fill the seat.
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Tressie McMillan CottomWhoever the Democratic Candidate Is, Americans Have Already Lost
The American Republic feels fragile.
By Tressie McMillan Cottom
These Obscure Democrats Could Soon Become Kingmakers
President Biden insisted on Friday that he would stay in the race. But if he decides to step aside, these individuals will determine who leads the ticket.
By Nick Corasaniti and Taylor Robinson
news analysisCrisis? What Crisis? Biden Rejects Democratic Pessimism.
After last week’s devastating debate performance, the president’s prime-time interview with ABC News was an exercise in not just damage control but reality control.
By Peter Baker
Interview Appears to Change Few Democratic Officials’ Views on Biden
Both Democratic supporters of Biden’s campaign and those who have called for him to drop out signaled that the president’s interview with ABC News only reaffirmed their stances on his candidacy.
By Chris Cameron
A Defiant Biden Says Only the ‘Lord Almighty’ Could Drive Him From the Race
President Biden dismissed concerns about his age, his mental acuity and polls showing him losing his re-election bid.
By Michael D. Shear
Media MemoFor George Stephanopoulos, 22 Minutes of Probing the Personal.
Respectfully but firmly, the ABC anchor pressed President Biden on the basic questions that Americans had asked themselves over the past week.
By Michael M. Grynbaum
Read the Full Transcript of President Biden’s ABC News Interview
The conversation between the president and George Stephanopoulos lasted about 20 minutes and aired Friday night.
By Simon J. Levien
Biden Says He Has Not Had a Cognitive Test and Doesn’t Need One
“Every day I have that test. Everything I do,” President Biden said in his ABC News interview. “Not only am I campaigning, but I’m running the world.”
By Zolan Kanno-Youngs
Four Takeaways From Biden’s Post-Debate Interview
In his first television interview since the debate, President Biden tried to reassure supporters, but he spent much of the interview resisting questions about his capabilities.
By Shane Goldmacher
Loyal Democratic Voters React to Biden Interview With Relief, and Despair
“I tell you, he looked a whole lot better than the debate,” said one voter in Detroit.
By Jack Healy
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